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Ecclesiastes 7:9
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Don’t let your spirit rush to be angry,for anger abides in the heart of fools.
Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Be not quick in your spirit to become angry, for anger lodges in the heart of fools.
Do not be eager in your spirit to be angry, For anger resides in the heart of fools.
Don't become angry quickly, because getting angry is foolish.
Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, For anger dwells in the heart of fools.
Don't be hasty in your spirit to be angry, for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not thou of an hastie spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.
Do not be eager in your spirit to be vexed,For vexation rests in the bosom of fools.
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger settles in the lap of a fool.
Don't be quick to get angry, for [only] fools nurse anger.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be vexed; for vexation resteth in the bosom of fools.
Don't become angry quickly, because anger is foolish.
Be not hastily angry, for anger rests in the bosom of the fools.
Keep your temper under control; it is foolish to harbor a grudge.
Do not be quick in your spirit to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Do not be hasty in your spirit to be angry; for vexation rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not haistely angrie in yi mynde, for wrath resteth in the bosome of a foole.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry; for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Be not hastie in thy spirit to bee angry: for anger resteth in the bosome of fooles.
Be not hastyly angrie in thy minde: for wrath resteth in the bosome of fooles.
The end of a matter is better than the beginning thereof: the patient is better than the high-minded.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Be thou not swift to be wrooth; for ire restith in the bosum of a fool.
Don't be in a hurry in your spirit to be angry; for anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.
Do not let yourself be quickly provoked, for anger resides in the lap of fools.
Do not hasten in your spirit to be angry, For anger rests in the bosom of fools.
Control your temper, for anger labels you a fool.
Do not be quick in spirit to be angry. For anger is in the heart of fools.
Do not be quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Do not be rash in thy spirit, to be indignant, - for, indignation, in the bosom of dullards, doth remain.
(7-10) Be not quickly angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of a fool.
Be not quick to anger, for anger lodges in the bosom of fools.
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry, For anger in the bosom of fools resteth.
Don't be quick to fly off the handle. Anger boomerangs. You can spot a fool by the lumps on his head.
Do not be eager in your heart to be angry, For anger resides in the bosom of fools.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
hasty: 1 Samuel 25:21, 1 Samuel 25:22, 2 Samuel 19:43, Esther 3:5, Esther 3:6, Proverbs 14:17, Proverbs 16:32, Jonah 4:9, Ephesians 4:26, Ephesians 4:27, James 1:19
anger: Genesis 4:5, Genesis 4:6, Genesis 4:8, Genesis 34:7, Genesis 34:8, Genesis 34:25, Genesis 34:26, Genesis 34:30, Genesis 34:31, 2 Samuel 13:22, 2 Samuel 13:28, 2 Samuel 13:32, Proverbs 26:23-26, Mark 6:19, Mark 6:24
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:41 - then 1 Samuel 20:32 - what hath 1 Kings 21:4 - And he laid him Esther 5:10 - refrained Job 5:2 - the foolish Job 20:2 - and for Proverbs 14:29 - but Proverbs 17:14 - leave Proverbs 19:2 - and Proverbs 21:24 - haughty Amos 1:11 - kept 1 Corinthians 13:4 - vaunteth not itself Ephesians 4:31 - wrath Titus 1:7 - not soon
Cross-References
So the Lord took some soil and made animals and birds. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give each of them. Then the man named the tame animals and the birds and the wild animals. That's how they got their names. None of these was the right kind of partner for the man.
Noah was six hundred years old when the water under the earth started gushing out everywhere. The sky opened like windows, and rain poured down for forty days and nights. All this began on the seventeenth day of the second month of the year.
just as God had told him to do. And when they were all in the boat, God closed the door.
Wolves and lambs will graze together; lions and oxen will feed on straw. Snakes will eat only dirt! They won't bite or harm anyone on my holy mountain. I, the Lord , have spoken!
Storks, doves, swallows, and thrushes all know when it's time to fly away for the winter and when to come back. But you, my people, don't know what I demand.
Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.
It doesn't matter if you are a Greek or a Jew, or if you are circumcised or not. You may even be a barbarian or a Scythian, and you may be a slave or a free person. Yet Christ is all that matters, and he lives in all of us.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry,.... With men, for every word that is said, or action done, that is not agreeable; encourage not, but repress, sudden angry emotions of the mind; be not quick of resentment, and at once express anger and displeasure; but be slow to wrath, for such a man is better than the mighty, James 1:19
Proverbs 16:32; or with God, for his corrections and chastisements; so the Targum,
"in the time that correction from heaven comes upon thee, do not hasten in thy soul to be hot (or angry) to say words of rebellion (or stubbornness) against heaven;''
that advice is good,
"do nothing in anger l;''
for anger resteth in the bosom of fools; where it riseth quick, and continues long; here it soon betrays itself, and finds easy admittance, and a resting dwelling place; it easily gets in, but it is difficult to get it out of the heart of a fool; both which are proofs of his folly,
Proverbs 12:16; see Ephesians 4:26; the bosom, or breast, is commonly represented as the seat of anger by other writers m.
l Isocrates ad Nicoclem, p. 36. m "In pectoribus ira considit", Petronius; "iram sanguinei regio sub pectore cordis", Claudian. de 4. Consul. Honor. Panegyr. v. 241.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 7:9. Anger resteth in the bosom of fools. — A wise man, off his guard, may feel it for a moment: but in him it cannot rest: it is a fire which he immediately casts out of his breast. But the fool - the man who is under the dominion of his own tempers, harbours and fosters it, till it takes the form of malice, and then excites him to seek full revenge on those whom he deems enemies. Hence that class of dangerous and empty fools called duellists.
